Discovering anaemia at child health clinics.

abstract：:We report a child who presented with a progressive neurological disorder associated with hypertension and paroxysms of irritability and sweating in whom an abnormality of catecholamine metabolism or excretion was demonstrated. An elder sister died at the age of 2 1/2 years with similar clinical symptoms but without bl...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Young I,Hosking GP

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair growth measurements are a sensitive indicator of nutrition and we have assessed their value in the perinatal period. The proportion of growing roots and their diameter were studied at birth in 114 babies and repeated 3 weeks later in 29 low birthweight babies. Intrauterine malnutrition resulted in thinner roots b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Berger HM,King J,Doughty S,Wharton BA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three children with cystic fibrosis developed steatorrhoea unresponsive to changes in pancreatic supplements. The final diagnoses were chronic giardiasis, stagnant loop syndrome, and Crohn's disease. Refractory intestinal symptoms in cystic fibrosis merit further investigation. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Baxter PS,Dickson JA,Variend S,Taylor CJ

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and twenty eight deprived children were compared with a matched sample of more endowed children living in the same urban area. Both groups were served by the same experienced primary health care team. The deprived group had a significantly higher number of general practitioner consultations and admissions ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Marsh GN,Channing DM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the diagnostic accuracy of chest radiography in the detection of chest lymphadenopathy in children with clinically suspected pulmonary tuberculosis. METHODS: DESIGN:Prospective cross sectional study. SETTING:A short stay ward in a children's hospital in South Africa. PATIENTS:Consecutive child...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Swingler GH,du Toit G,Andronikou S,van der Merwe L,Zar HJ

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standing height, sitting height, armspan, subischial leg length, head circumference, and growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) axis were determined in 86 patients with osteogenesis imperfecta. The aim of this study was to determine standing height and body proportions and their variability among osteogen...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lund AM,Müller J,Skovby F

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preductal and postductal oxygen saturation were compared in 20 ventilated preterm infants with hyaline membrane disease to establish the frequency of right to left shunting and to assess the accuracy of postductus arteriosus blood gas sampling. One hundred and thirty eight comparisons were made and the frequency of ri...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Macdonald PD,Yu VY

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In preterm babies both haemoglobin and total neutrophil count values from capillary sites are significantly and variably higher than those from simultaneous arterial samples. Comparing simultaneous venous and arterial samples, the mean haemoglobin was slightly higher but the total neutrophil counts were similar. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Thurlbeck SM,McIntosh N

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the clinical presentation and sequelae, including salt-wasting crises of newly-diagnosed congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) in children aged over 1 year in a contemporary population without screening. To appraise the potential benefit of newborn screening for late-presenting CAH. DESIGN:Active...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Knowles RL,Khalid JM,Oerton JM,Hindmarsh PC,Kelnar CJ,Dezateux C

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one children with a bacteriologically proven urinary tract infection had both an intravenous urogram (IVU) and a micturating cystogram. The IVU was normal in 35. Only 6 of these children showed reflux in the cystogram, affecting 7 of the 70 ureters at risk. Since reflux on its own does not cause renal damage, wh...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Moncrieff MW,Whitelaw R

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological study of disease in a geographically identified population of 250 children is reported. 22% had not seen their general practitioner (GP) at all in the past year, while 20% had seen him four times or more. The vast majority of these visits were because of an infective illness; and developmental and b...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bax M,Hart H

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many children who present with these acquired impairments of communication have a clear preceding event such as an acquired brain injury from a road traffic accident. Children often respond differently in this situation to adult presentations. They may have a period of mutism when the prognosis might look poor and yet...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： O'Hare A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All 212 neonates undergoing cardiac surgery at this hospital during the 5-year period from 1976 to 1980 inclusive were reviewed. Forty required open heart surgery with 23 (57%) deaths. One hundred and seventy-four neonates underwent non-bypass procedures and could be divided into three groups: group 1 (82 patients) ha...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Bove EL,Bull C,Stark J,de Leval M,Macartney FJ,Taylor JF

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the utility of a novel Paediatric Consultation Assessment Tool (PCAT). DESIGN:Developed to measure clinicians' communication behaviour with children and their parents/guardian, PCAT was designed according to consensus guidelines and refined at a number of stages. Volunteer clinicians provided vi...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Howells RJ,Davies HA,Silverman JD,Archer JC,Mellon AF

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:It is often assumed that prolonged time to diagnosis (TTD) for cancer negatively influences overall survival and survivorship through advanced stage disease at diagnosis. This systematic review assesses existing early diagnosis research in childhood and young adult cancer and aims to identify whether a consensu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Lethaby CD,Picton S,Kinsey SE,Phillips R,van Laar M,Feltbower RG

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess psychological and social functioning and health related quality of life and its early determinants in children born with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). DESIGN:Cross-sectional follow-up study. SETTING:Outpatient clinic of a tertiary care hospital. PARTICIPANTS:33 CDH survivors aged 6-16 ye...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Peetsold MG,Huisman J,Hofman VE,Heij HA,Raat H,Gemke RJ

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the time it takes for paediatric TTA and inpatient orders to be dispensed and sent to ward. This is to establish if the Trust is meeting an operational Key Performance Indicator (KPI). STANDARDS KPIS:▸ 85% of urgent items (TTAs) dispensed within 1 hour.▸ 85% of non-urgent items (most inpatient orders) di...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Hale A,Christiansen N,Calvert H

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three neonates with rectal perforations probably caused by the use of the rectal thermometer, are reported. The dangers of this condition and the difficulty of diagnosis even at laporatomy are emphasised. It is suggested that since the axillary temperature in the neonate is an adequate reflection of the core temperatu...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Frank JD,Brown S

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 11 year old boy presented with severe acute hereditary coproporphyria. Despite supportive measures his condition deteriorated after admission. Haem arginate, started two days after presentation, produced appreciable inhibition of porphyrin precursor overproduction and clinical improvement. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Manning DJ,Gray TA

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) is the first described neurotrophin that stimulates the growth and differentiation of nerve cells and promotes skin and peripheral tissue regeneration. Recent studies suggest that NGF influences endothelial cell proliferation and angiogenic activity. In view of these proposed regenerative eff...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Chiaretti A,Piastra M,Caresta E,Nanni L,Aloe L

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the outcome and identify predictive factors in children with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). METHOD:The biographies of 35 children with PNES, attending a tertiary paediatric neurology centre, were reviewed. RESULTS:Thirty five children attending the department between 1987 and 1997 were ev...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Irwin K,Edwards M,Robinson R

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate how parents report children's respiratory sounds on video compared to a clinical "gold standard". METHODS:Five clinicians agreed on 10 video clips of children with audible breathing. These responses were the "gold standard". The clips were shown to parents of children: (a) with asthma/wheeze; (b) w...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Cane RS,McKenzie SA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) encompasses a group of inherited connective tissue disorders. The manifestations of EDS can be seen in skin, joints, blood vessels and internal organs and vary from mild to severe and life threatening. Each subtype is a separate and different condition. The genetic basis of many s...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Sobey G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the sensitivity of differential avian and human delayed-type hypersensitivity skin testing in the diagnosis of non-tuberculous mycobacterial lymphadenitis. METHOD:Retrospective review of all patients with culture proved non-tuberculous mycobacterial lymph node infections who also had differentia...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Daley AJ,Isaacs D

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5.7 year old boy with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency developed intractable ascites after liver transplantation. Conservative treatment was unsuccessful and after 18 days concentrated ascitic fluid was reinfused intravenously using a Gambro haemofilter. The ascitic loss resolved rapidly. This new method of ultrafiltr...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Noble-Jamieson G,Jamieson N,Barnes ND

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two newborn infants, male (A) and female (B), with lethal hyperammonaemia are described in the same family. In both, symptoms started on the second day of life. Lethargy and hypotonia were the most prominent initial findings and were followed by convulsions and coma. In both, blood ammonia levels rose to 570 mumol/u (...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Mantagos S,Tsagaraki S,Burgess EA,Oberholzer V,Palmer T,Sacks J,Baibas S,Valaes T

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess differences across educational outcomes in survivors of childhood cancer (CCS) compared with peers. DESIGN:Systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SELECTION:Medline, EMBASE, ERIC, CINAHL and PsycInfo from inception to 1st August 2018. Any peer reviewed,...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Saatci D,Thomas A,Botting B,Sutcliffe AG

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12 year old Asian girl with a four year history of poorly controlled insulin dependent diabetes mellitus developed overt diabetic nephropathy. There were no clinical features of Rabson-Mendenhall syndrome. Screening for microalbuminuria would have identified incipient diabetic nephropathy and highlighted the importa...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Francis J,Rose SJ,Raafat F,Milford DV

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 20 children needing treatment for symptomatic sick sinus syndrome, the average age at presentation was 7.1 years and ranged from 9 months to 18 years. Symptoms were never precise but, in retrospect, 5 children had syncope, 7 had a rapid heart action, 6 had dyspnoea or tachypnoea, 2 had nonspecific chest pains, 2 ha...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Radford DJ,Izukawa T

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An infant with severe hypertension who had a nephroblastoma which was secreting active renin is described. Nephroblastoma must be included in the differential diagnosis of hypertension associated with increased renin concentrations, even in the absence of an abdominal mass. ...

journal_title：Archives of disease in childhood

authors： Khan AB,Carachi R,Leckie BJ,Lindop GB

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00